tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926870823165438047.post3050269646500362726..comments2024-01-21T10:04:31.352-06:00Comments on Searching for Ithaka: Everything That's Wrong with Religion in One Video (Russell Brand)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152407256780002310noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926870823165438047.post-41559367290225846702013-06-22T10:05:34.126-05:002013-06-22T10:05:34.126-05:00What I'd like to see with Westboro is to take ...What I'd like to see with Westboro is to take away their tax exemption. This is dangerous insofar as it permits the government to control the content of a church but that's for people to work out but what they do, as you say, is nothing to do with a church.<br /><br />It's a bit cynical in that view of a business model as it really is a quite different feeling over here from anything I ever felt in U.S. Where your thinking was quite a rarity, here it is pretty much understood as in, oh, of course that's how people should behave. It may very well be that I haven't seen enough but what I've seen so far shows Greeks as thinking of each other as one huge family, kind of tribal on a national level, and it's quite beautiful to see.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152407256780002310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926870823165438047.post-2690605143472706082013-06-22T09:20:20.785-05:002013-06-22T09:20:20.785-05:00Those Greek churches still follow the business mod...Those Greek churches still follow the business model Jesus taught to Peter and Paul. <br /> Start a church. Teach my word in a small group. Once it gets so you dont know everyone by name . Leave and go start another. <br /><br />Remember Churches take care of the downtrodden not goverments. They fix roads and keep the plumbing flowing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926870823165438047.post-78388347323576321712013-06-22T09:11:51.449-05:002013-06-22T09:11:51.449-05:00Please do not consider Westboro to be part of Amer...Please do not consider Westboro to be part of American Christianity. <br /><br /> While most organized religon suffers from many ills. And has many issues<br /> Westboro is too Christianity what Bin Laden is to Islam. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com